Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-27


in the city. The Astors own so much
real estate that IL does not pay to insure
il. The loss of house or two now
and then out of some hundreds would
not be so serious as The insurance
charges on the whole estate. As 70 the
general subject OF real estate, there is
10 boom here, hut there is an increa-
sing investment demand, and prices
aIe little higher than year ago.
THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO DEAL.
This is the era Of great railroad or
carnations end consultations. AS in
political systems so in business The
tendency is towards consolidation or
unificaton. What struggles in former
ages to bring kingdoms and provinces
into empires under the rule OF Cyrus.
or Alexander, or Julius Caesar; what
fierce contentious to bring about the
unlfcaiion Of Italy and the consolida-
ton of German States, not to mention
these horrors of war to preserve the
American Union. And so in business,
and for the moment more noticeably in
railroads. We shall yet have a great
route from New York to the South,
and the so-callcd Baltimore and Ohio
" deal is regarded with incrcas.
ing interest. II will probably yet be
cfloctod in connection with the now
famous Richmond Terminal, which
swallowed its parent, the Richmond
and Danyille, and has digestion equal
10 the maceration of the Baltimore and
Ohio. i see, by the way, that there is
10 truth in the Tumor that Alfred Sully
was to be displaced as president of the
Richmond Terminal This is now, Of
course, generally Known, but it would
he interesting if the secret history of
these negotiations and rImors--black
st times with venom. spite, and jea-
lousy-could be given. | don't know
whether Mr.. Sully is used to the envy
snd malice of financial lagos or not,
but every other financial leader
has been called fool or q
knave and bad TO surmount obstacles
reared by jealousy, and he will probably
fare no better than the rest in this re-
spect. OF course, this particular mat
ter is of no especial importance except
as aflording an interesting insight into
the experience of millionaires which
may well reconcile a philosopher to his
poverty. it tends to make the reflective
mind rather disguised with Wall street
ard the whole atmosphere OF finance.
AS TO this great IDEAL perhaps the
n ost important in our railroad history
it is very carefully watched in Wall
street. Commission-houscs look TO its
happy contamination as a. rainbow Of
hope, prefguring halcyon days Of
more active speculation and higher
prices to come. How some of the com
missIOn-hOuses manage to scrape along
with 10 outside demand for stocks is
one Of the inscrutable mysteries of the
" Street"
A RUSSIAN NIHILIsT IN NEW YORK.
The Terrorists will Just reach the
Gar, said a Russian NihiIist now here,
as he spoke of the recent bombshell
plot in st. Petersburg, at is the
second known attempt against Alexan-
der III hut there have been fifty other
like plots within the past five years.
never suspected even by the horde of
secret police guarding the Little Father,
who VIII one day suffer the doom of his
predecessor. "
You can any day see here in New
York several of the Terrorists who
have played a part in previous con-
spiracies against the Gar, and the
speaker on this occasion was the author
Of that extraordinary subteTanean
dynamite plot at Moscow which came
within a hairs breadth of success, and
which sent all concerned i'll it, except
ing the chief actor, to the scatfold.
1t is curious to see how these Terror
ist conspirators who find refuge on
this side of the Atlantic, after their
desperate adventures, are lost in the
general mass and fall into the ways of
he country. The author of the Mos
row plot Just referred to, for example,
las struck the lines of fortune as al
inventor, and one Of his recent con-
tracts is for the supply of banking in
,tituiions with an ingenious invention
bat is very serviceable indeed. He is
! Misunderstanding, taciturn, practical
nan, who has become naturalized, and
IS as full of American politics as he
nee was of Russian cOnspiracies.
BECoME GOOD AMERICAN CITIZENS.
Another of these cOnspirators who
played his part in a Terrorist plot that
hook the Cars palace OF Peter and
Paul is now busy in New York as an
and the complicated appG-
ratus that fills his quarters reminds You
IF Edison's workshop at Menlo Park.
ct another Terrorist, formerly belong
irg to the Russian artillery. who was
ln actor in the same plot, recently left
this city for a far western State, where
re is engaged rs a mining engineer
Among the other members of the Rus
circle now here one ~ a
winter, another doctor, third minis
ter, while several are engagedln ordinary
business pursuits. Few of the people
v 10 know them or have dealings with
IhOm are aware of their antecedents,
,lout which they themselves are al
WAYS silent, both on account OF the
niciudices they would encounter and
nv the danger to which they believe
hey are subject. Upon the head OF Mt
east one of them n large price Is set,
md few of them ever get rid OF the
dea that they are under the suryeil-
ancc of Russian spies. 1t will
.r remembered that when Mr..
Elaine was Secretary OF State a de
nand was made upon him for the
delivery of Leo Hartman, who fled from
his city to escape arrest. According
10 recent dispatches from st. Peters
burg the Terrorist suspected of being
The author Of the latest dynamite plot
against the Gar was that Degaief, who
three yesrs ago, after the execution OF
Colonel Sudoikin, is believed to have
found a hiding-place in New York.
But what started out to say was
This. that the Terrorist refugees in New
York. and their hundreds of Nihilist
brethren from Russia, are apt to settle
down here as busy American citizens
Of a very peaceful and practical turn OF
mind.
CHIN-CHIN CONES TO AMERICA.
Hewas born in the imperial palace IN
Pekin. From the day he first saw the
light he was surrounded by all the lux
uries and splendor that make the home
of the Emperor of China a realization
of the dreamso of the Arabian Nights.
A magnificent apartment was set aside
and assigned to his exclusive use. A
careful armour" was appointed,